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(No Model) J. T. GOMMOSS.

FUMIGATOR.

No.. 606,446. Patented June 28, 1898.

WITNESS INVE/VTUH ATTORNEY NITED STATES PATENT Orricn.

JOSEPH T. COMMOSS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

FUIVIIGATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 606,446, dated June 28, 1898. Application filed February 28, 1898. Serial No. 671,945. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH T. CoMMoss, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of New York, (borough of Brooklyn,) Kings county, New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in F umigators, of which the following is a specification.

The general object of my invention is the employment of a strand of combustible material which is saturated with a chemical sub-.'

stance in the nature of a fumigator and to be used in toilet rooms and other similar'places and my invention is embodied in a structural device including a strand of fibrous twine or other similar combustible material saturated with a proper chemical substance, anda supporting card or spool on which the strand is Wound between the ends of the card, the card having at one end an eyelet-hole for its suspension from a nail or the like, andhavingat the other end a stud or button with a notch in the exposed face thereof adapted to receive and clamp or compress the free end or portion of the strand. In practice a portion of the combustible strand on the supportingcard is unwound therefrom and inserted in the notch of the clamping-button in such a manner as to leave a portion of the strand depend from the button, so that if this loose or pendent end of the strand is ignited it has the efiect of fumigating the atmosphere of the apartment in which the device may be The letter A indicates the base or supporting-card .B, the eyelet-hole at one end of the card; 0, the clamping-button at the other end thereof O, the notch of the button, and D the strand of twine or other similar combustible material wound on the card. The location of the wound portion of this strandD is between'the endsof the card, and in order to insure the retention of the wound strand in position on the card the latter is usually and preferably enlarged at both of its ends,as at ce. The manner of using the device is clearly illustrated in Fig. I, and consists in unwindingaportion of the strand D and forcing the same intofthe notchC of theclamping-button, so as to permit the extreme free end or portion of the strand to hang loosely from the button, where it may be readily ignited. The loose end of "the strand D thus ignited will burn until its combustion is arrested by the button C,in the notch of which the strand is compressed, and hence the button performs the dual function of a strand-holder and extinguisher.

What I claim as my invention, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- A fumigator for toilet rooms and other similar places, composed of the strand-supporting card, with an eyelet-hole at one end for its suspension from a nail or the like, and a notched button at the other end thereof, forming a strand-holder and extinguisher, and of a strand of combustible material which is Wound on the card between its ends and .adapted to engage and interlock with the notched button, substantially as herein described.

JOSEPH r. ooMMoss.

Witnesses:

CHARLES'G. Con, CHAS. WAHLERS. 

